A History from Below: Translators in the Publicational Network of Four Magazines of China Book Company, 1913-1923

_{This dataset is a direct output of the project titled <b>"Mapping the Translators' Network of the Shanghai Publisher Chung-hua Library (1912-1920s)"</b> and funded by the Faculty of Arts, CUHK under Direct Grant for Research 2016-17.}_{The dataset is cited in the author’s paper titled <b>“A History from Below: Translators in the Publicational Network of Four Magazines of China Book Company, 1913-1923”</b>, completed in December 2018 and forthcoming in 2020 in<i> Translation Studies</i>.}_{The dataset is based on the following reproductions of four early twentieth-century Chinese magazines:}_{1.Wang Dungen 王鈍根 ed. 1913-1915. <b><i>Youxi zazhi</i> 遊戲雜誌 (The Pastime)</b>. 19 issues. Shanghai: Zhonghua tushuguan. Microform, Shanghai: Shanghai Library, 2017.}_{2. Wang Dungen 王鈍根, Sun Jiong 孫炯, Chen Diexian 陳蝶仙, Zhou Shoujuan 周瘦鵑, eds. 1914-1916; 1921-1923. <b><i>Libai Liu</i> 禮拜六 (The Saturday).</b> 200 issues. Shanghai: Zhonghua tushuguan. Bounded reprint, Yang Zhou: Jiangsu guangling guji keyin she, 1987.}_{3. Wang Junqing 王均卿 ed. 1914-1915. <b><i>Xiangyan zazhi </i>香艷雜誌 (Fragrance).</b> 12 issues. Shanghai: Zhonghua tushuguan. Bounded reprint, Beijing: Xianzhuang shuju, 2007.}_{4. Chen Diexian 陳蝶仙 ed. 1914-1915. <b><i>Nüzi shijie </i>女子世界 (Ladies’ World)</b>. 6 issues. Shanghai: Zhonghua tushuguan. Microform. Shanghai: Shanghai Library, 2017.}_{Chinese titles and proper names are untranslated at this stage.}_{The dataset consists of nine items:}_{<b><i>Item A</i></b><i><b> contributed items.xlsx</b></i>, a full catalogue of the contributed items in the magazines, with translations marked;}_{<b><i>Item B dataspreadsheet.xlsx</i></b>, a structured record of the bibliographical information of the contributors and their social connections as seen in the publications, with translators marked;}_{<b><i>Item C</i></b> <i>records of translators.xlsx</i>, which contains the information extracted from (A) and (B) about the translators, the titles of their translated works, and each translator’s translation:publication ratio,}_{<b><i>Item D China Book graph.gephi</i></b>, the editable and searchable graph of the publicational network in this study on the platform Gephi}_{<b><i>Item E China Book graph.pd</i></b><i><b>f </b></i>and <b><i>Item F China Book graph in grey.pdf</i></b>, the visual outputs of item D cited in the last section of the aforementioned paper.}_{<i><b>Item G issue dates.docx</b></i>, a list of the publication date/year of each magazine issue; and finally}_{<b>Item H translators with affiliations.docx</b><i>, </i>a list of publication records of the translators with disclosed affiliations.}_{<b>Item I explanatory notes.pdf</b>, a document on the rationale and structure of the data collection.}